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Paper citizens : how illegal immigrants acquire citizenship in developing countries

xv, 275 pages : 24 cm "When we think of illegal immigrants, we typically think about people from developing countries - Mexico, El Salvador, Peru, Pakistan, Nigeria - entering developed countries - the United States, Canada, Great Britain, France, Germany. According to conventional wisdom, those who make this trek leave weak, poor states in search of a better life in wealthy nations that possess the ability to track and monitor them." "Yet as Kamal Sadiq shows in this groundbreaking work, the conventional wisdom about undocumented immigrants is wrong. In fact, most of the world's illegal immig…